Route4Me Plans the Quickest Route for Multiple Stops

Whether you're planning a road trip or you're just headed out to run errands, you likely have a list of stops you'll need to make before you get to your final destination. If you're taking a road trip, perhaps you'd like to stop for gas and bathroom breaks every so often, or there are a number of interesting landmarks that you'd like to see while you travel. Route4Me is a Web app that allows you to input multiple destinations and addresses, and the app will plot the most time and travel efficient course from location to location for you.

Once the app has the directions, you can print them out and take them with you or fire up the service's iPhone app and take the directions with you. The developers of the app sell it in a number of ways; it can save you time because the app plots the shortest distance possible and minimizes backtracking, it can save you money on fuel, and it can even save the environment by reducing the amount of time you're on the road driving from place to place. Route4Me does something that all of us have thought about doing or try to do whenever we run errands; figure out how to arrange our stops so we're back home as fast as possible, or to the final destination as quickly as we can get there.

You can input up to 10 addresses at one time along with the departure address, and the service will do the calculations behind the scenes to see how far you are from each address, how far each address is from the other, and then give you a final course that takes you from location to location in the shortest amount of time. When the app has finished plotting your route for you, it will return the order of stops you should take to minimize your travel time.

The service also gives you turn-by-turn driving directions to each location that you can easily print and take with you. Alternatively, if you have a GPS device that supports it, you can download the directions file for your device so the route comes up pre-plotted when you plug it into your GPS.

Route4Me also has a companion iPhone app that uses Google Maps to help you get from place to place quickly. The iPhone app will use your phone to determine your current location and use it as the departure address. Then you can add your stops, and the app will handle the rest, including driving directions. The iPhone app even gives your estimated travel time and how many miles you have to travel, and if your iPhone supports it, turn-by-turn navigation.

Even better, the iPhone app can save addresses and destinations so you can pull them back up quickly. The iPhone App will run you about $1.99, but the Web app is free. If you find the Web interface useful, it may be worth the money to have Route4Me on your iPhone when you need it.

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